TABLE TALK.

Auckland Star, Volume XXI, Issue 35, 12 February 1890, Page 1

TABLE TALK.

Harmston's circus to-nigbb. Silbons doing big1 business. Sfr George Grey is in town. Imperial Parliament opened. Russell Jubilee Kegatta to-day. Mr Santley's next concert Friday. Postponement owing to relaxed throat. The Brazilian army is to bo increased by 10,000 men. The old Greyhound Hotel is rapidly dis« appearing. Wool is unchanged in London. Competition is still good. The R.M.s. Kaikoura lefb Plymouth for New Zealand on Monday. The Hon. Mr Hislop has been called South by public business. Rev. Mr Cox welcomed by the Mount) Eden Baptists last night. Mr J. W. Mitchell has been elected Chairman of the Bluff Harbour Board. One hundred and seventy-five bodies have been recovered from the Newport colliery. Anglican Synod meets on the 25th February to elect the Primate of Australia. Verdict for defendant on all counts in the Humphreys v. Rae alleged slander case. Mr Rowland Williams succeeds the late Sir Henry Manisby as Judge Queen's Bench Division. Dr. Hassell, of Welington Asylum, exchanges with Dr. King at Avondale for four months. Rev. Mr Burnett, of Westport, has been elected Moderator of the Preebyterian General Assembly. Mr A. E.G. Rhodes, M.H.R., has concluded the inquiry in regard to the limits of the Thames Harbour boundaries. * A telegram received by Mr Alexander today states that Wirth's circus is atill doing; tremendous business at Christchurch. Sir Elliott Boviil, Chief Justice of Cyprus, and Hon. A. C. Onslow, Chief Justice of Western Australia, exchange positions. The annual meeting of the Canterbury Saleyarda Company was held yesterday. A dividend of 11 per cent, was declared. The contractor for the Greyhound Hotel and new block of buildings referred to yesterday is Mr C. M. Newson, and not Mr Hewson. , The American National League has appealed for funds to enable the Home Rulers thoroughly to contest the British elections. Two schooners, named Kent and Sussex, bound from Sydney to Tweed River, are missing. They encountered the full force of the late storm. Mr David Hean, who is to report to the English directorate upon the affairs of the Bank of New Zealand, arrived by the Ripgarooma last night. The King of Italy has been pleased to confer the decollation of the order of the Crown of Italy on Mr George Fisher, Italian Consul at Wellington. For the information of the Admiralty, inquiries are being made throughout the colonies as to the facilities for coaling warships on the Australian station. Among the passengers who lefb for Sydney yesterday was Mr W. C. W. McDowell, 8.A., who proceeds to Edinburgh to enter upon a course of medical study. The cottage which is said to, have been partially burnt at Pokeno, through sparks from a locomotive setting fire to the furze, was not insured in the Souch British Office as stated. The annual report of the Chriatchurch Drainage Board engineer states that there are in the Christchurch district 47 miles 20 chains of sewers, with which 1,156 houses are connected.' The Bluff Harbour Board have put export wharfage charges of one shilling per ton on frozen meat and per 1.000 feet timber respectively, both of which have hitherto been shipped free. Among the passengers by the Manapouri to Melbourne yesterday was Miss Brusnan, formerly of Simonsen's Opera Company. A large number of her friends assembled on the wharf to see her off. A widespread plot ha 3 been discovered by the Turkish authorities with the object of restoring Midhat Pasha, and insisting on various reforms, and fomenting risings in Macedonia, Crete, and Armenia. A regatta is to be held at Limestone Island) Whangarei, early in March. There will be 14 events. Mr Edwards, of Waikaraka, was chairman of the meeting held at the vVhangarei Hotel. The premises of Mr T. E. Carter, pictureframer and teacher of music, Victoriastreet, have just been extensively altered and decorated by his son, who has recently returned from the Dunedin Exhibition. The Chamber of Deputies by a large majority rejected the proposed repeal of the banishment laws. It is expected that the Duke of Orleans will be sentenced to a week's imprisonment and expelled from the country. Dr. King, of the Avondale Asylum, is about to exchange with Dr. Haasell, of the Wellington institution, for a short time, owing to Mrs King's health being such thato she requires change of air. Dr. King will be absent about four months. The editor was dying, but when the doctor placed his ear to the' patient's hearU and muttered sadly: " Poor fellow ! circulation almost gone '" he raised himself and gasped : " 'Tis fake ! We have the largest circulation of any paper in the country I" Then he sank back upon his pillovr with a triumphant smile upon hi& features. Little drops of printer's ink. A little type displayed, Make our merchant princes And all their big parade. Little bit?} of stinginess— Diseartfin* printer's inkBurst the man of business. And see his credit sink. The small boat Storm King, with its adventurous crew, Capt. Jorgensen, haa again been heard of in the course of his lengthy voyage to Australia. He was spoken by the Peebleshire, barque, bound from Glasgow to Brisbane, on November 11th in lat. 12 S., long. 21-47 W. Thia would place her off Bahia, in South America. The British ironclad Ben bow carries only two heavy guns, each of which weighs 110 tons. Calculations as to the cost of the use of the armament of this vessel show that in two ordinary engagements at least £130,000 worth of material would be used up. A naval engagement between any two of the great naval powers would, it is calculated, involve an outlay of at least £1,000,000, exclusive of the value of the vessels that would probably be destroyed. Professor Haddon, the English naturalist" who has just spent some months on the islands south of New Guinea, says there will never again be so good a time as now to stmiy the natives and make anthropological collections, as the Papuans there are dying out fast, and are still more rapidly discarding their native art 3, preferring to buy the merchandise that the whites bring among them. Dr. Wolf observed this fact far south of the Congo, and said that in some places the natives who have acquired foreign jack-knives and other hardware are likely to forget the art of iron-working. George Fowlds, Victoria Arcade, will be closed bo-morrow, marking down for hi* gieatj sale qs> Friday,— (AdvtO,